The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize....
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James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory...
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by William Steig, and published in 1969. It won the Caldecott Medal in 1970. Sylvester Duncan, a young donkey from the fictional community of Oatsdale...
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Sylvester (crater), an impact crater on the Moon Sylvester Medal, given by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research Sylvester...
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Sylvester Antolak (September 10, 1918 – May 24, 1944) was a United States Army Sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for actions on May...
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freedom of thought". He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963). Bertrand...
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by later accolades. In 1904, the Royal Society awarded Cantor its Sylvester Medal, the highest honor it can confer for work in mathematics. David Hilbert...
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Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De Morgan Medal and the Sylvester...
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1924. In 1917 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal of London Mathematical Society and in 1928 the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. He served as the president...
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John Edensor Littlewood (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958. He was president of the London Mathematical...
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John G. Thompson (category National Medal of Science laureates)
the United States National Medal of Science in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a recipient of its Sylvester Medal in 1985. He is a member of...
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American Mathematical Society. In 2022 the Royal Society awarded him the Sylvester Medal "for his many important contributions to the study of prime numbers...
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2019 he became the 10th non-British citizen to ever be awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. In 2024 he received the Shaw Prize. Sarnak, Peter...
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Medal for mathematics, and later at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 and awarded its Sylvester Medal in...
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1934 made FRS and in 1952 won the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society. He received in 1950 the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society...
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an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society in 2010. He was Lowndean Professor of Astronomy...
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fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society. Computers in Number Theory. (editor). London:...
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Society and the American Philosophical Society; in 1916, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society. In 1908, he was a plenary speaker at the International...
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Mathematical Society (in 1961–62) to receive the Sylvester Medal (in 1964) to receive the De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society...
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Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950 and in 1997 he was awarded their Sylvester Medal. In 1990, he became a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts...
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study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties. In 2023 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society. Reid speaks Japanese and Russian and has given...
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E. T. Whittaker (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
the Sylvester Medal from the Royal Society for "his original contributions to both pure and applied mathematics". He then received the De Morgan Medal from...
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Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1917. The Royal Society awarded him the Sylvester Medal in 1922 and elected him as a foreign member in 1930. He became an honorary...
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from 1935-1947. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1931 De Morgan Medal, 1953 Sylvester Medal, 1955 Berwick Prize winner, 1956 The Zeta-Function of Riemann...
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elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1946, he received the Sylvester Medal from the Society. He was president of the London Mathematical Society...
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Ramanujan Prize 2008: European Mathematical Society prize recipient 2014: Sylvester Medal, awarded by the Royal Society. 2019: Senior Whitehead Prize of the...
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of Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize (1990), the Sylvester Medal (2000) and the Pólya Prize (2002) have been awarded to him in honour...
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Augustus Edward Hough Love (category Royal Medal winners)
include the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1909 and Sylvester Medal in 1937, and the London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal in 1926. He was secretary to...
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elected 1939 Royal Society Sylvester Medal, awarded 1958 London Mathematical Society, President 1949–1951 LMS De Morgan Medal, awarded 1962 D.Sc. University...
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life and work of James Sylvester (professor 1883–94) was commemorated by the Royal Society by the inauguration of the Sylvester Medal; this was won by a later...
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